ICTs and Climate Change
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Mountain Forum is an efficient ICT-enabled platform that works towards sustainable mountain development
Equipping ourselves better
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Earth
Oneworld South Asia (OWSA), India
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Leveraging the ICT niche, OWSA intends to develop, document and disseminate key climatology knowledge using multi-channel media, and work towards multi-stakeholder consensus on climate change and for the realisation of MDGs
Shared responsibility for climate control
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Former US Vice President Al Gore, in 2006, authored best seller
Hand in Hand, India
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Lessons learnt
It has been deliberated and discussed, in detail, in the recently concluded 8th Annual Baramati Initiative, on the importance of reaching the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in India, especially to the areas that are normally out of reach, where the interventions of tele-Education, tele-Medicine and tele-Governance, in addition to a plethora of innovative services such as smart card accessing, simputering and mobile banking, can be made possible.
SKS Microfinance, India
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
SKS Microfinance is working extensively on rural credit and microfinance and trying to identify feasible financial solutions for the rural Indian folk.
Ekgaon Technologies, India
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The need for microcredit
Self-Help Group (SHG) movement in India constitutes one of the largest microfinance networks in the World. However, SHGs
e-Banking Technology, Estonia
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Background
Estonia is internationally renowned for being a pioneer in the adaptation to new banking technologies. Estonia is currently belonging to the country group of medium Internet penetration on the global scale outnumbering its Baltic neighbours and Eastern-European countries but being somewhat behind from the Scandinavian countries, USA, Canada, leading European countries and some Asian countries.
ICT for Financial Inclusion
[This article was published in the April 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Why electronic banking?
Change is being driven by falling costs of technology, by competition and by the ability of electronic banking solutions to offer customers an enhanced range of services at a very low cost.
ICT tools for Disabled and Underprivileged
[This article was published in the March 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The word
